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...been an unwritten rule, perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel-unless someone...
...elections proved at least that in Chicago, whose pugnacious brand of politics has earned it the sobriquet "City of Clout," Daley will still have plenty at his disposal when, as expected, he seeks a fourth four-year term next spring...
...golf team emerged from hibernation yesterday to clout Brandeis, 7-0, and Holy Cross, 4-3, and to boost its record to 6-4. Before yesterday Harvard had lost three of its last four matches...
...Nuclear Clout. In his eagerness to depict the nation's true strength, McNamara even made public such previously classified information as the fact that the number of warheads available to the Strategic Alert Force will have increased from 836 in 1961 to 2,600 by next June, with a tripling of megatonnage. His purpose in publishing such figures, he explained, was "simply to insure that none of us, friend or foe, miscalculates this nation's capability to fulfill its treaty commitments. I can't imagine anything more dangerous...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...